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LION'S MILK
The guru-disciple relation is sometimes fraught with tension and discord. In this story, Guruji tells how a certain guru tested his disciples to the extreme degree in order to correct a mistakened view that they had about the guru and his disciple, a king. Also, the story shows how the tests that the guru gives to his disciple may only be known to the guru.
ong ago the king of Mahasthra, Shivaji,
was the disciple of Sumart Swami Ram Dass. Since Shivaji was a king, his high position and power caused the guru's other disciples to become jealous of him. In fact, they began to believe, quite mistakenly, that their guru gave special favor to the king just because he was a king who had great wealth and power. And the disciples began to think that the guru only loves the king and not we who serve him night and day. Furthermore, they thought that the king does not really love our guru as we
do.
The guru, of course, saw these thoughts in his disciples and he decided to show them how wrong they were about his relation to the king. So one day, he said to them, "Come, we must go to the forest and meditate." And he took all of his disciples except the king into the
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